Trade in Transit

Opening lecture.- Peace and trade: The classical vs the marxian view.- James and John Mill on comparative advantage: Sraffa's account corrected.- The financial conditions for sustaining the present recovery.- World trade and international finance: lessons from the past.- The influences of international capital flows on world trade.- High-tech and the changing shape of world trade.- International equilibrium - Some longer-term issues.- The trend in world protectionism.- The United States economy in transition.- The role of domestic US economic and financial policy in the world economy: cures that could be worse than the disease.- Exchange stability, international monetary coordination, and the U.S. Federal Reserve System.- Surveillance over exchange rate policies.- The future of North-South relations: alternative approaches.- Countertrade: a disruptive phenomenon in international trade.- Barter: the misunderstood alternative.- East-West trade and the role of the Western government.- Some thoughts about East-West economic relations and the world economy.- Did the exchange rate stability within the EMS contribute to more trade?.- The viability of the ECU.- The Pacific Basin, recent economic and financial developments.- The trading company: past and future.- Success factors for the next ten years: an approach to the development of international trading.- The consumer in world trade.- Export finance from a Keynesian point of view.- Doing business crossculturally: International trade and the resurgence of Islam.